Cydnus meunieri

Nicolas Théobald · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CydnusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cydnus meunieri on record, most of them in the Oligocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Cydnus meunieri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cydnus meunieri and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cydnus meunieri and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Aphanus murchisonae2 sites
- Bibio curtisi2 sites
- Plecia bucklandi2 sites
- Plecia foersteri2 sites
- Plecia livida2 sites
- Plecia lygaeoides2 sites
- Aphanus dilatatus1 site
- Aphanus pulchellus1 site
- Aphrophora coquandi1 site
- Apis1 site
- Apis (Synapis) henshawi1 site
- Argiinae1 site
- Attoides eresiformis1 site
- Bibio1 site
- Bibio aquaesextiae1 site
- Bibio curtisii1 site
- Bibio spectabilis1 site
- Bibiodes provincialis1 site
- Blattotermes massiliensis1 site
- Brachycera1 site
- Camponotites longiventris1 site
- Camponotites theobaldi1 site
- Cassida blancheti1 site
- Cheilosia oligocenica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cydnus meunieri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cydnus meunieri
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Nicolas Théobald
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cydnus meunieri was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCydnus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Theobald 1937